Maria Pierides trained as an artist and art psychotherapist and worked in the NHS for a number of years. She is now devoting herself full time to her art and private practice at her studio in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons. Living within earshot of a running stream, she explores in paint the texture and temporality of human experience. Building up and scraping back areas of paint to capture the atmosphere, mass, light and poetry of the landscapes she is aiming to represent, Maria's work seamlessly connects inner and outer worlds.
Maria’s painting has been shortlisted for the Society of Women Artists Open, Royal West of England Academy, ING Discerning Eye, Bentley Open Art Prize, The Maidstone Museum, The British Women Artists Competition and the East Meets West Art Award, as well as being Long listed for the Threadneedle Prize. She recently won a Scholarship and International Exhibition Prize with the Visual Artists Organisation where she had her prize winning painting taken to The Other Art Fair, London 2023. She is represented by Studio Cennen, Kingsford Gallery and Wychwood Art.
Maria is also a member of the Free Painters and Sculptors and Flux Exhibitions in London and exhibits nationally and internationally with work in private collections in the UK, USA and Europe.
